Plan Your Visit
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Allow at least 1 hour to stop at the Visitor Center and hike the Lava FLow Trail. If you have additional time, hike the Lenox Crater Trail, or enjoy the view from the Cinder Hills Overlook. Use extreme caution when hiking - lava is sharp, brittle, and unstable; cinders are slippery underfoot. Lava Flow Trail is a 1-mile (1.6km) loop trail with a .25 mile (.4km) accessible loop. It is a self-guided trail exploring a variety of volcanic formations. The Lenox Crater Trail provides an opportunity to climb a cinder cone. This steep trail is 1-mile (1.6km) round trip and requires about 30 minutes up and 15 minutes down! Backcountry hiking is not allowed in order to protect fragile geological and archeolgocial features. Please stay on designated trails. You can also hike to O'Leary Peak on a 7-mile (11.2km) Forest Service trail. Pets must be kept on a leash at all times. They are not allowed in buildings or on trails in the national monument. |
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Visit all 3 Flagstaff Area National Monuments
Wupatki and Walnut Canyon National Monuments are both nearby. Read More
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The eruption of Sunset Crater Volcano must have been a powerful event. It destroyed all plants within a 5-mile radius. A fountain of fire, 850 feet high, was visible for miles around. An ash cloud rose 2.5 miles into the sky, and falling ash covered about 64,000 acres.